Past Lives and Present Life

edited by Shay

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“The person has been brought in.”

The guard led Gu Huan into the holding room.

Seeing the person on the other side through the electronic screen, he knew he hadn’t guessed wrong.

To make him isolated and force him to make a decision regarding the royal family was just to have a conversation with him.

But he didn’t expect that the person hidden in the shadows would turn out to be him.

Director He of the research institute.

Gu Huan looked at He Yunan across from him. This was someone entirely unexpected.

As the Director of the Research Institute, He Yunan was undoubtedly outstanding. There was no sign that he would help Chu Fengyuan or that he was seeking profit. Could it be that he had also gone down the wrong path to seek vengeance for the Empress?

Gu Huan had handcuffs limiting his range of movement, and he had taken a drug before coming in, leaving him in an exhausted state with significantly diminished mental power. However, he still sensed that something had been arranged around them by the middle-aged man on the other side, isolating their conversation from the detention center’s surveillance.

He Yunan immediately got to the point.

“I’m here to take you away.”

“Why should I leave this place?”

“If you don’t leave here soon, when the verdict is announced, their trust in you will be shattered. What are you still attached to here?”

Gu Huan chuckled softly.

“What difference does it make to leave this place?”

“You no longer need their trust, nor do you need any reputation. You were their enemy from the beginning. What does their opinion matter?”

“Why was I born as their enemy?”

Based on what Gu Huan now understood, he had been an experimental subject, and there was a history of enmity between him and the Empress and Emperor. However, that should have been resolved by now, especially since the Emperor was in such a dire state.

“You’ve lost your memory.”

“…” Gu Huan did not deny it. He gazed with his two pure golden eyes at the well-dressed researcher on the other side.

He bore some resemblance to He Qixing but appeared more old-fashioned.

“It seems I was right.”

“In the past, I had some suspicions, but after you were granted the rank of General on Victory Day… and you still made no move, I was certain that you must have lost your memory.”

The meeting room suddenly fell into a hollow silence, and Gu Huan’s gaze gradually deepened as he looked at the researcher on the other side of the electronic screen, and his voice became indifferent.

“What do you mean?”

“It’s not because of the Empress that you have a grudge against them.”

“Rather, it’s because of the Empress that your animosity with the royal family has somewhat dissipated.”

“If Empress Gu had been alive, you might have let go of your hatred, but the Chu family continues to be as repugnant as ever, with all their actions… all pushing you towards revenge.”

He Yunan looked at Gu Huan in front of him, gazing at the faintly reflected silhouette on the pale blue electronic screen.

Fair, smooth skin, handsome and noble features, like a prince walking out of a fairy tale, exceptionally beautiful with a hint of coldness in his eyes, and long, waist-length black hair.

He was the most perfect creation, whether in terms of mental power, physical fitness, or appearance.

The eyes across from him, gazing at him, were like a glowing microscope.

Gu Huan felt a bit uneasy under the chilling gaze, tilting his cheek slightly and propping his chin with his slender fingers.

“Be clearer in what you’re saying,”

“What grudge do I have with them?”

“Do you still remember the promotional film you shot?”

“At the inception of the empire, there was a god-like figure who saved the empire. He miraculously repelled the Zerg at the time.”

“That person is not a legend; he actually exists.”

“And he is neither old nor dead; he has been around for many years. That’s why people consider him a god.”

Gu Huan’s eyelids twitched.

He couldn’t help but feel that this description was particularly like himself as a half-elf. The only difference was that the notion of being immortal was an exaggeration. Half-elves simply had long lifespans, but they did age and eventually passed away.

Otherwise, how could he have died in his previous life?

“Before the founding of the empire, almost everyone wanted him to become king, because when others become king, there’s always a day of death. Even if the throne is passed on to children, if future generations produce incompetent rulers like Chu Shengyun, then the efforts of the predecessors would be in vain. So, at that time, the person who had repelled the Zerg and could have become the emperor should have been him. He was supposed to become the eternal will, the eternal king.”

“Unfortunately.”

“Someone with ill intentions obstructed him.”

“The person who killed him is the current emperor’s family, and that person’s reincarnation is you.”

“The reason you took credit and snatched credit, was to become the trusted confidant of the emperor, just like he did in your previous life, and then betray him.”

“We had an agreement. We were supposed to act on Victory Day, but you never gave me any signal. I was sitting in the row behind you.”

On Victory Day, sitting in the row behind the various military commanders… were the researchers.

At that time, he had only noticed Sui Ran.

Gu Huan lowered his hand from his face.

Every word He Yunan was saying now was refreshing his understanding.

“Why should I believe you?”

“I accidentally discovered that a seed was born on your frozen body. The composition of that seed is very similar to a human fertilized egg, so I replaced the experimental subject being cultivated with that Zerg fertilized egg.”

“The experiment that had been stalled for so long achieved immense success with you.”

“Not only were you successfully integrated with the Zerg Queen’s mental power genes, your physical qualities were also very exceptional.”

When He Yunan talked about this, he appeared somewhat excited, and his whole being seemed to fall into a peculiar distortion. He used his hands to outline Gu Huan’s contours.

“You are perfect.”

The giant tree.

Elves are born from the giant tree.

That’s why his body has channels for using magic.

Because fundamentally, this body is related to his half-elf body.

The original owner must be him!

In his first life, he was born into a military family. In the second life, he transmigrated into a Western fantasy world. He should have had a third life, where he transmigrated to the beginning of this world, and then somehow died in this world, but he didn’t transmigrate into another world again because this researcher made him be reborn here.

Gu Huan vaguely understood how it worked deep down.

But a puzzle piece was still missing.

The memories he had lost, those related to the founding era, what exactly had happened?

“So, have I told you the story from my previous life?”

With a slightly raised brow, Gu Huan carefully dug into the current situation.

“Yes.”

“Are you saying that I have a grudge with the Chu family?”

“The empire’s crown should have been yours,” He Yunan stated without hesitation.

“…”

Gu Huan fell silent.

His entanglement with Chu Xinglin was indeed deeper than he had imagined.

Hatred.

It might be because he lacked memories from that period that he felt like he was listening to someone else’s story when he heard these words.

Chu Xinglin is already the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of his sworn enemy, and who knows how many generations have passed.

Even if there was a grudge, it shouldn’t extend to Chu Xinglin.

Perhaps it was because they were lovers, which was why he was thinking this way. If they had been enemies from the start, their perspective on the same matters might be different.

“This is also between me and them. What are you after?”

With a deep frown, Gu Huan asked in return.